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Post Subject: Edgar HornsPosted by amperidian on: 11/17/2006
Back to the subject of this thread!
I heard some rendition of Dr Edgar's gigantic monsters at the Montreal
show this year (2006) running with Modwright electronics, some 16 wpc
tube amplification (possibly SET). There was in that room also a
gigantic table which reminded me of the famous "Turk" (chess playing
machine developed in the 1800's) without the player ... this turned out
to be the subwoofer of the system.
I walked in the room, hurt my ears for 15 seconds and then out of the
room to talk to the Dr and see why he would bring such diabolical
system here. He told me that it was simply becasue he could not
defeat the laws of physics. "Thank you Dr, you got another audio
dufus convinced here of your illumination" I said and left for good.
Despite my limited amount of exposure in audio and even less with live
unamplified music, I found the sound in that room to be below what I
expected. Hearing a lot about horns, I thought that audio nirvana
was about to pay me a visit when I entered the room. Instead,
both my wife and I were immediately greeted with a severely metallic
treated treble, which although very open sounding, made me look for 2
pairs of earplugs ... but to my surprise I was told that the audio
morons in the room had already tossed them all out the window because
their ears were already filled with wax and they didn't need them. The
only positive impression I got was that there was a general lack of
congestion in the midrange, however the music selection was some small
trio jazz ensemble and not an accurate reflection of a true
orchestra. Also, the volume was too high, which probably resulted
from poor sound correlation and room anomalies. NO INTEGRITY.
ZERO. I forgot about the bass ... it was like a never ending and
loose sounding earthquake.
Going back home, I was wandering what Dr Edgar meant about the laws of
physics. He further explained to me at the show that you cannot
get accurate bass from a small driver and that was why he had created
this enormous contrapture with a driver that measured either 15" or 18".
OK, so he may have been experimenting to see if the small room that
they had at FSI could generate an earthquake of magnitude 6 or 7 on
Richter scale, acting like a resonant bass chamber with mouth at door
of room. Maybe his system may have more favorable results in
larger room, but I cannot understand these manufacturers bringing their
products to the show and cramming them in a small space with listening
position in VERY near field (due to room size) and then looking around
proudly and hyping their own products despite the horrible
sonic excrementation being produced next to them. This industry sucks.
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